Buying yourself an entire political party and the federal government sure seems to be the best business you can get into. You need some capital to get started, but once you're there you get to fleece an entire country of 330M people.

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

Fed Chair Powell: “There is effectively zero net job creation in the private sector.”
#ablueSky #MedSky #LawSky #PoliSky #EconSky

In a nutshell. 😊

There is an important lesson here, though: brainwashing works. You can create an electorate that will steadfastly refuse the evidence of their eyes and any rational weighing of options if you promise to please their base urges.
Everyone who wants a government based on values must grapple with that.

Atlantic current shows two-decade decline across four deep-ocean monitoring sites A paper published in the journal Science Advances is adding to the growing body of research showing that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is weakening. In this new study, instead of relying mainly on computer models, scientists used two decades of direct ocean measurements to confirm the decline.

Atlantic Ocean sensors confirm a consistent two-decade decline in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Data from four mooring arrays across the western boundary verify a weakening transport signal below 1,000 meters, validating concerns of long-term circulation shifts.

War ja klar, dass das nicht einfach so harmlos wird mit deren Produkten, sobald eine von diesen Firmen mehrere hundert Milliarden wert ist.
Bald wird das Ding unterschwellig versuchen, dich dazu zu bringen, irgendwas zu kaufen. The final frontier.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong.

Hohe Energiepreise durch den Irankrieg: Der Strompreis bleibt stabil Während die Gas- und Ölpreise wegen des Irankrieges teurer werden, bleibt der Strompreis stabil. Der Grund: der Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien.

Es ist mir ein innerer Reichsparteitag, dass es ausgerechnet die erneuerbaren Energien sind, die von der #Reiche im Auftrag der Fossilenergiekonzerne sabotiert werden, die den Strompreis stabil halten!

Hohe Energiepreise durch den Irankrieg: Der Strompreis bleibt stabil

taz.de/Hohe-Energie...

Frau im TV die Krebs nach Therapie überlebt hat sagt, dass sie nur durch die Gnade Gottes überlebt hat.
Kind so: "Hä? Die war im Krankenhaus und dort haben sich Ärzte und Krankenschwestern um sie gekümmert und ihr Medikamente gegeben und die behauptet, Gott hätte sie gerettet. Voll unhöflich" 😬

Yeah right. These people sure don't behave like they will have to face voters anytime soon.

We must use US taxpayer dollars to backstop the UAE

Which is facing economic problems caused by the war Trump started and doesn't know how to win

A war encouraged by leaders of the UAE

Who have given hundreds of millions in bribes to Trump, his family, and associates

Well it's still Florida

On the right is someone NFL doctors say is 6’3, 230 lbs with 5% body fat

On the left is someone White House doctors say is 6’3, 224 lbs with 4.8% body fat

If the White House is THAT dishonest about something so clear, why should we believe anything they say about anything?

Wife of LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer steps in to save NPR’s future with $80M gift NPR also received an anonymous $33 million donation in April

👏👏👏 Wife of LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer steps in to save NPR’s future with $80M gift www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

A demonstration at the Dilley Concentration Camp in Texas. Children and families have been imprisoned in the concentration camp in Texas for months, and all they’ve experienced is abuse, neglect, mistreatment, undrinkable water and moldy food. #SHUTDOWNDILLEY

Credit: @mommmaliz.bsky.social

A poster that reads, “Believing a 12-year-old is mature enough to give birth to her rapist's baby, but needs parental approval to check out a book, is peak Republican.”

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK

Believing a 12-year-old is mature enough to give birth to her rapist's baby, but needs parental approval to check out a book, is peak Republican.

Tomorrow, I’ll post a reminder to the GOP about book bans and censorship :-)}

I don't think I'll ever get over Clarence Thomas ruling on cases related to Jan 6 knowing that his wife was an active participant in the attempted coup.

Or ruling on cases related to government regulations and a wealth tax knowing he took gifts from billionaires.

It's a disgrace.

And all because these mean Norwegians didn't give him the Nobel prize. That'll teach em.

An Amiga 500 was my first computer. Seeing these status lights here brings back so many memories

On Tax Day, Socially Conscious Millionaires Say Make Us Pay More! | Common Dreams On Tax Day, the Patriotic Millionaires and progressive US lawmakers rallied on Capitol Hill for fair taxation and economic justice.

My friend and fellow member of the board of the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity Scott Ellis is on a tear. He just spoke at the Capitol on Tax Day as a member of Patriotic Millionaires:
www.commondreams.org/news/million...
#EconSky #News #Universal #AcademicSky #Following

If you paid even a penny in federal income taxes on your income last year, you paid more than Tesla. YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

If you paid even one penny in federal income taxes on your income last year, then you paid more than Tesla.

Here's why.

So this whole bruhaha on Friday was just a bit of market manipulation I assume.

MASSIVE 600 ton Liebherr mining excavator converted from diesel to electric Lloyds Metals and Energy have successfully converted a massive, 650-ton class Liebherr R 996 excavators from diesel power to electric.

The future is electric

Perfect merger of academic medicine with right wing podcasters and wellness grifters.

#NUFC

There is a chunk of the population that will always be looking for an asshole. But there's an opportunity for a broader left/center coalition if it can be based on an economic vision. Not just blurbs about affordability. An actual vision. Not sure Dems have that plan, though. Maybe not yet.

One disconcerting part of this weird 21st fascism revival is the coterie of Nazi barbies. Done up blondes, silicone lips, fake tits, the whole works.
And they're trying hard to leave no well of hate untapped, especially on the xenophobia side

Calling your town Weed earns bonus points as well